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send an email to me and I'll let you know when the book, or early sample chapters, are avail

groglogic+perfbook@gmail.com

vim suffices. almost all generic native text editors suffice

I stopped reading after the 10th sentence or so demonstrating AI-pilled psychosis and hand-waving. That it is obviously this or obviously that and obviously some other thing.

I look forward to these types of posts fading in frequency much more so than AI use itself.

an invoice can be a small gob of digital (or if printed, ink on paper) text. it can be emailed. it can be generated from a template by a tiny shell script. feels like an easily solved problem for many decades now. its hard only if we want it to be.

and no AI needed, youngsters

in cases where no AI involved (which is 100% of cases) I just use my mind and English text in the form of written notes

EV software. perf book. something edu/political related. a design for an upgrade to voting systems. ssh BBS game. mostly, EV software

"Ueno!"

er, I mean: "Oh, no!"

a collective madness or mass IQ collapse

I cannot tell if this is a parody

source code is the spec, kiddos

I have precisely 0 use for the emoji which already exist.

The Chinese seem to excel at copying (poorly, at first, then polishing) and scaling up. It makes sense they could leverage that approach to robots. What struck me as strange, at a strategic level, is that with a billion and a half warm bodies, and no serious military threat to their homeland, its not clear why theyd have a big incentive to automate away manual labor jobs, or need to massively upgrade military capabilities. Only if I put on a villain's hat, when doing analysis, would it make sense. Human soldiers might refuse unethical orders, or refuse to put down mass civil protest, whereas a robot would not. Then suddenly their robot strategy makes sense.

"as low as $1.1T"

the absurdity

an asset who is not aware is merely a useful idiot

as with anything, use it as a signal upon which to filter or rank opportunities. its wise to invest our time on those who demonstrate they value us the most. simply reciprocate back. why? life short, time precious.

I'm old enough to have realized that I've done plenty of R&D in my life that wasn't formally named that. R&D is about the substance, the mode, the impact, not the names or titles.

good opportunity for Americans now especially to understand the different tiers of foreign operatives within any given country:

1. an agent (James Bond is the canonical example)

2. an asset

3. a useful idiot

The trick is that sometimes its harder to tell which flavor a particular individual best fits, at least from the outside with insufficient data. Some we might assume are agents/assets might be merely useful idiots, or vice versa.

Apple ][ (+, e) were DIY/hacker-friendly. The //c more closed and first Mac moreso. The ][ product line more Woz and Mac was more Jobs. During those machines prime era it was clear that those with the hacker/DIY itch better served on the early IBM PC clone and MS-DOS machines. Apple lost a lot of nerds for a period and wasnt really til OS X it seems that they wanted us back.

I wish they knew both more and less, depending. No paradox just a synthesis per the Hegelian dialectic. I've seen ads which were clearly leveraging a creepy/dangerous piece of info they had about me. And I've seen dumb ads trying to sell me products I no longer have any reasonable interest in because I just fricken bought them the damn thing.

The advertising ecosystem is bad and broken in both directions within the dimensions of what they know, how much they know and in how they leverage it.

TBF if one cared about privacy or security one would not use Claude in first place.

its not hard to order food without AI

its not hard to prepare food without AI

its not hard to "do X without AI" for about 99.99999% of all different possible cases of X

none; no; none; no; not needed; no; none; unnecessary; no thanks; and not interested. "I've seen enough, kiddos."

There appears to be an AI biz using an LLM bot to spam me pitching me on a supposedly paying role to help them train their LLM (to better replace me out of my own field), and as part of their "application" process I merely have to email some rando strangers a bunch of critical PII as well as do something which would de facto be helping them to train their LLMs. except unpaid, cuz part of their "application" process

they tweak their names and exact wording each time but pattern/template is consistent

(scumbags)

It sounds like it could be more lucrative to be a restaurant/baking consultant/trainer than to run a restaurant directly. Devilish details in the execution, requiring just the right individuals and timing and probably luck. With lots of ways to fail.

my father was a draftsman and so I grew up with blueprints and a drafting table in the home. He was also a user of the earliest CAD systems, including AutoCAD (by a vendor named Autodesk). It had a Lisp-like language built-in named AutoLISP. It was the first Lisp running in my home that I can remember or at least the first I interacted with.

CAD systems were clearly meant as a software tool for the kind of workflow previously done by hand, by draftsmen, involving printed blueprints. And a Lisp was exposed for user interaction about as early as you can get. When I interacted with it myself it felt like I was dealing with a REPL exposed by a Lisp VM (ported to an IBM PC class machine in the MS-DOS era) that also happened to have a graphics renderer and screen display. And I note the OP's college student "thesis" paper alone was written over 30 years after AutoCAD shipped to my family's home.

So I am not clear if the OP is just ignorant of CAD's history, or they are making an intentionally baiting and misleading claim.

The guys do it because they love playing football and its a chance to make millions of dollars rather than working minimum wage or blue collar jobs for far less fame. Its a trade-off and gamble.

a real "galaxy brain" epiphany might come when one considers idea that perhaps we dont need software to exercise

just exercise. it will be ok, really. somehow we managed for millions of years, kiddos, and both gravity and the human body are unchanged in any relevant way since which suddenly requires "an app". I can get out of bed without an app, or an AI. I can prepare a meal and eat without any kind of app, or any kind of AI or LLM. its a true and real thing, in the real world, promise!

vim use is whats reliably helped me to remember vim commands. a bonus is I can use the same tactic for all other software and in many other domains where I'd like to keep related skills fresh in mind, at figurative fingertips

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you joke but that sounds like how many of the fully AI-psychotic shops operate